I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.
In short, Beard said, the rich must, in their own interest, either control the government directly or control the laws by which government operates.
In New Orleans in 1907 a general strike on the levees, involving ten thousand workers (longshoremen, teamsters, freight handlers), black and white, lasted twenty days. The head of the Negro longshorem...
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience...War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however l...
Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that...
Will not hold ourselves bound to obey the laws in which we have no voice of representation.
Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief and noted orator, tried to unite the Indians against the white invasion: The way, and the only way, to check and to stop this evil, is for all the Redmen to unite in claiming...
I ain't gonna kill; it's against my will. . . .
Because of Columbus’s exaggerated report and promises, his second expedition was given seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men. The aim was clear: slaves and gold. They went from island to is...
Only one fear was greater than the fear of black rebellion in the new American colonies.
In the mid-thirties, a young black poet named Langston Hughes wrote a poem, Let America Be America Again:. . . I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I a...
But the idea of a peace dividend could not be stifled so long as Americans were in need. Shortly after the war, historian Marilyn Young warned:The U.S. can destroy Iraq's highways, but not build its o...
But opinion surveys in the 1980s and 1990s showed that Americans favored health care for everyone. They also were in favor of guaranteed jobs, government help for the poor and homeless, military budge...
Another black woman, Margaret Wright, said she was not fighting for equality with men if it meant equality in the world of killing, the world of competition. I don't want to compete on no damned explo...
ATTENTIONANTI-RENTERS! AWAKE! AROUSE! . . . Strike till the last armed foe expires, Strike for your altars and your fires-Strike for the green graves of your sires, God and your happy homes!
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
When President Jimmy Carter, responding to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, called for the registration of young men for military draft, more than 800,000 (10 percent) failed to register. O...
Whatever we poor men may not have, we have free speech, and no one can take it from us.
We need to dig under the rubble of war and point out that the Bush administration is using the war as a cover for worsening the income gap in this country, while paying no attention to the problems of...
The President of the United States isn't going to solve our problems. The problems are too big.